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Congratulations to the seven children in New York State who submitted videos about their favorite books to the nationwide StoryTubes video contest.

All the New York State entries have been posted to the NYS Summer Reading Program web site.

To enter the contest, children in grades 1 to 6 made short videos about their favorite books. And they’re delightful to watch!

All of the entries from around the country can be viewed at the StoryTubes site. During May, finalists will be selected the following categories and everyone will be able to vote.

• May 5 - May 11, 2008 - Hair-Raising Tales
• May 12 - May 18, 2008 - From or For the Heart
• May 19 - May 25, 2008 - Of Heroes and Heroines
• May 26 - June 1, 2008 - Facts, Fads and Phenoms

The StoryTubes project was created by the folks at Gail Borden Public Library in Elgin IL. Staff of the Children’s Services department at Middle Country Public Library in Centereach & Selden NY were the coordinators for the Northeast region.

Hey tech campers! Linda did a terrific video with photos from all the tech camp sessions. She used Animoto to create it.

Give it a whirl with your own photos. This would be a fun way for students to create short videos of their art work, a portfolio of projects, videos of events. A good visual storytelling tool.

What else can you think of to use it for in your schools?

Check out more digital storytelling tools on lib20.pbwiki.com

At the school library tech camp session last weekend, some of us got talking about using Web 2.0 tools for digital storytelling. I decided to play with a few tools and create a new page about storytelling on my wiki: http://lib20.pbwiki.com/resources-storytelling

The tools all take your photos or images and let you add audio and/or text narration.

• VoiceThread is a wonderful tool that I’ve mentioned here before that lets you upload your images, add text notes and audio. Other users can also chime in and leave audio and text notes.
• Animoto was new to me (mentioned to me by Diane Cordell on TeacherLibrarianNing) Animoto lets you create short videos

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